nl stringlengths 13 387 | bash stringlengths 1 532 |
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display files ending with ".ext" in current folder which are present in the file "foo" | find . -type f -name \*.ext | xargs grep foo |
display files in current folder ending with "pdf" or "PDF" | find . -name '*.pdf' -or -name '*.PDF' |
display the file name and creation month of top 11 files in the entire file system | find / -type f -printf "\n%Ab %p" | head -n 11 |
display the file name and the file type of all the files in the current directory | find . -printf "%y %p\n" |
Display the file size of file '/data/sflow_log' in bytes | du -sb /data/sflow_log | cut -f1 |
Display file type description of 'file-name' based on contents. | file file-name |
Display the file type description of /bin/bash, ie. symbolic link, ELF executable, etc. | $ file /bin/bash |
Display file type information for all instances of "file" in the current PATH. | which file | xargs file |
display the filenames which do not have begin with dot (.) | find . -maxdepth 1 -name '[!.]*' -printf 'Name: %16f Size: %6s\n' |
Display the first 10 lines of the byte hex dump with no file offset data for "/bin/ls" | od -t x1 -An /bin/ls | head |
Display the first 32 bytes in "foo" as printable characters with 16 characters per line | od -c foo |head -2 |
Display hardware platform, ie. x86_64 even if current kernel uses 32-bit addressing. | uname -i |
display the help of find command | find --help |
Display the host's ECDSA fingerprint using the sha256 hasing algorithm. | ssh-keygen -l -f /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key.pub |
Display hostname. | uname -n |
display the html, javascript and text files in the current folder (print0 is used to preserve the filenames of all the files which have newlines in their names) | find . -type f \( -name "*.htm*" -o -name "*.js*" -o -name "*.txt" \) -print0 | xargs -0 -n1 echo |
Display human-readable file type description of ascii.txt | file ascii.txt |
display in a list of all the files that are bigger than 10KB in current folder | find . -size +10k -ls |
Display infinite scroll of random ASCII art | yes 'c=(╱ ╲);printf ${c[RANDOM%2]}'|bash |
Display infinite scroll of random ASCII art | yes 'printf \\u$[2571+RANDOM%2]'|bash |
(GNU specific) Display info on most CPU-intensive processes once and exit. | top -n 1 |
Display kernel release name. | uname -r |
Display the last 3 characters of variable foo. | echo $foo | rev | cut -c1-3 | rev |
Display the last colon-separated field of variable 'var' | echo "$var" | rev | cut -d: -f1 | rev |
Display the last dot-separated field, in this case "com". | echo 'maps.google.com' | rev | cut -d'.' -f 1 | rev |
Display the last slash-separated part of each filename path in file.txt | rev file.txt | cut -d/ -f1 | rev |
Display the last slash-separated part of path, in this case "example". | basename /usr/local/svn/repos/example |
Display the last space-separated field of each line in file.txt | rev file.txt | cut -d ' ' -f1 | rev |
display list of all the C files ( fuiles with ".c" extension ) in current folder | find . -name '*.c' -ls |
display list of all the files in the /tmp folder | find /tmp/ -exec ls "{}" + |
display list of all the files in the current directory | find | xargs ls |
display list of all the files in the current directory (print0 handles file names with newlines or spaces) | find -print0 | xargs -0 ls |
display the list of all the files in the current directory which have been accssed in the last 500 days exluding hidden files | find . -type f \( ! -iname ".*" \) -mtime +500 -exec ls {} \; |
display list of all the files in the current folder which are empty. | find . -size 0 -ls |
display list of all the hidden directories in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search -path '*/.*' -ls |
display list of all the hidden directories in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search/ -type d -iname ".*" -ls |
display list of all the hidden files in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search/ -name ".*" -ls |
display list of all the hidden files in the home folder | find $HOME -name ".*" -ls |
display list of all the hidden regular/normal files in the directory "/dir/to/search/" | find /dir/to/search/ -type f -iname ".*" -ls |
display the list of all the normal files excluding hidden files which have been accessed in the last 500 days | find . -type f -not -name ‘.*’ -mtime +500 -exec ls {} \; |
display list of all the regular/normal files in the current folder which start with "my" | find . -name 'my*' -type f -ls |
display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are bigger than 512 kb | find /home/ -type f -size +512k -exec ls -lh {} \; |
display list of all the regular/normal files in the home folder which are exactly 6579 bytes | find /home/ -type f -size 6579c -exec ls {} \; |
Display list of files ending with '.txt' in the current folder to the terminal twice and output it to the text file "txtlist.txt" | ls *.txt | tee /dev/tty txtlist.txt |
display the long listing detials of all the files in the folder junk which is in home folder. | find ~/junk -name "*" -exec ls -l {} \; |
Display long listing of all the files/directories owned by the user 'me' under '/tmp' directory tree | find /tmp -user me -ls |
display long listing of all the files in the folder "/myfiles" | find /myfiles -exec ls -l {} ; |
display long list of all the files in the folder /home/peter which belong to no user and change the owner,group of all these files (after user confirmation) to "peter","peter" | find /home/peter -nouser -exec ls -l {} \; -ok chown peter.peter {} \; |
display long listing of all the files in the root folder which are bigger than 3KB | find / -dev -size +3000 -exec ls -l {} ; |
display long listing of all the files that have been changed in the last 4 days, daystart is used to compare from the starting of day i.e, at 00:00 | find . -daystart -ctime 4 -ls -type f |
display long list of all the perl files in the current folder | find . -name "*.pl" -ls |
display long listing of all normal/regular files in the current directory which have been modified in the last 2 days. | find . -mtime -2 -type f -name "t*" -exec ls -l '{}' \; |
display long listing of all regular/normal files whose size is less than 50 bytes. | find /usr/bin -type f -size -50c -exec ls -l '{}' ';' |
display long listing of all the regular hidden files in the folder Musica | find Música/* -type f -name ".*" -exec ls -l {} \; |
display long listing of all the symbolic links in the current folder | find . -type l -exec ls -l {} \; |
display long listing of all the text files in the current folder | find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls -la {} \; |
display long listing of all the text files in the current folder (plus at the end executes quickly by sending bulk data as input to the command in exec) | find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls -la {} + |
display long listing of first 10 directories in the current folder | find . -type d -ls | head |
display the manual page of find | man find |
Display mime type of file specified by variable "file" | file -ib "$file" |
Display name and value of 'variable' if it exists. | env | grep '^variable=' |
Display the named characters in "line1\r\nline2" | echo -e "line1\r\nline2" | od -a |
display the name of all directories in the current folder and do not search in sub directories | find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -exec basename {} \; |
display the name of all directories in the current folder and do not search in sub directories ( mindepth ensures that the current folder name is removed from the output) | find . -type d -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -exec basename {} \; |
display the names without extensions of all the data files in current folder which have not been changed in the last 60 mins | find . -prune -name "*.dat" -type f -cmin +60 |xargs -i basename {} \; |
display the names without extensions of all the data files in current folder which have not been changed in the last 60 mins | find ./ -name "*.dat" -type f -cmin +60 -exec basename {} \; |
Display non-hidden files in the current directory with the given output format | find . -maxdepth 1 -name '[!.]*' -printf 'Name: %16f Size: %6s\n' |
display the number of lines in all the ".c" files in the current folder | find . -name "*.c" -exec wc -l {} \; |
display the number of lines in all the ".c" files in the current folder | find . -name "*.c" -print | xargs wc -l |
display the number of lines in all the ".c" files in the current folder | find . -name "*.c" -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l |
display the number of lines in all the files in the current folder | find . -exec wc -l {} \; |
display the number of lines in all the files in the current folder | find . -name '*' | xargs wc -l |
display the number of lines in all the header files in the current folder | find . -name "*.h" -print | xargs wc -l |
display the number of lines in all the php files in the current folder | find -name '*php' | xargs cat | wc -l |
Display the number of lines in all regular files under current directory tree and also show the total count | find . -type f -exec wc -l {} + |
Display the number of regular files under current directory tree | find . -type f -exec echo {} \; | wc -l |
Display the number of regular files under current directory tree | find . -type f -print0 | tr -dc '\0' | wc -c |
display only the file names of all the files which end with ".deb" | find . -name '*.deb' -printf "%f\n" |
Display only first and second dot-separated numbers of kernel version, ie. 4.4 | uname -r | cut -d. -f1-2 |
Display permissions, user, group, and full path for each file in the current directory tree as a list | tree -p -u -g -f -i |
(GNU specific) Display process information for all processes whose command line contains "processname". | top -b -n1 | grep processname |
(GNU specific) Display process information (batch mode, display once) with full command lines. | top -b -n1 -c |
Displays process tree of a process with id 'PID', showing parent process and processes id. | pstree -p -s PID |
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in ascending order of size | du -a --max-depth=1 | sort -n |
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories sorted in descending order of size | du -a -h --max-depth=1 | sort -hr |
Display the sizes and filepaths of all files/directories with '.undo' extension under current directory tree | find -name *.undo -print0 | du -hc --files0-from=- |
Display standard input as octal bytes | cat | od -b |
Display standard input as printable characters or backslash escapes with no addressing radix | od -cAn; |
Displays status of currently active network interfaces. | ifconfig |
Display summary of each specified file in human readable form | du -sh * |
display table of files with their name, owner, and size in bytes. | find . -printf 'Name: %f Owner: %u %s bytes\n' |
display top 11 files along with the last access date for all the files in the file system | find / -type f -printf "\n%AD %AT %p" | head -n 11 |
display the top 20 biggest files in the current folder which are present in the same partition as that of the current folder | find . -xdev -printf ‘%s %p\n’ |sort -nr|head -20 |
Display top 500 mp4 and flv files under current directory along with their timestamps in the sorted order of time | find . -regex ".*\.\(flv\|mp4\)" -type f -printf '%T+ %p\n' | sort | head -n 500 |
Display the total count of all the files/directories with '.old' extension under current directory tree | find . -name “*.old” -print | wc -l |
display the type of all the regular/normal files in the entire file system | find / -type f -print | xargs file |
display the version of find command | find --version |
display the version of find command | find -version |
Display who is logged on and what they are doing | w |
Download "Louis Theroux's LA Stories" using rsync over ssh | rsync -ave ssh '"Louis Theroux"''"'"'"'"''"s LA Stories"' |
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